NOUN
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
How To Use logicism In A Sentence
- But at least it's better than formalism, logicism, intuitionism, constructivism or Platonism.
- They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
- The oddest of which is the following from p. 443: "The emphasis on extensionality [in PM 2nd ed.] hardly fitts well with a logicism in which, for example, non-denumerability is central. Words and Other Things
- His doctrine differed substantially from the formalism of Hilbert and the logicism of Russell.
- This aim makes Frege the first to fully develop the main thesis of logicism, that mathematics is reducible to logic.
- The modern controversy between logicism and intuitionism arose, in fact, from disagreements over infinity.
- There was thus an affinity between logical positivism and logicism.
- They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
- Waismann criticized both logicism and formalism.
- Of equal significance during this same period was Russell's defence of logicism, the theory that mathematics was in some important sense reducible to logic.